New Education Platform online in 2009

October 6th 2008

Sound and Vision has developed and carried out a new pilot within the framework of Images for the Future from September 2007 until June 2008 that attempted to find the best solution for the disclosure of collections of archive institutions for educational purposes.

This so called Pilot Education Media Platform (Pilot-EMP) was aimed at secondary education. Based upon the findings of this pilot, Sound and Vision has now begun developing and constructing the real education platform. In this platform archive institutions join together to make their sources available to secondary education. The point is to create a digital environment for making papers and presentations with heritage sources (audio, video, photo, text), a lesson desk and lesson builder, and a search function that can search within several sources at the same time.

The participating institutions are Sound and Vision, National Archive, Naturalis, the National Museum of Antiquities and The National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, Kennislink and the Filmmuseum. The intention is to present the new platform at the National Exhibition of Education in January of 2009, whereupon a first version will become available in the springtime.